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Peer reviewedCharles-Luce, Jan; Luce, Paul A. – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Similarity neighborhoods for words in young children's lexicons were investigated using three computerized databases. Results revealed that words in five- and seven-year-olds' lexicons have many fewer similar neighbors. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Patterns, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedCharles-Luce, Jan; Luce, Paul A. – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examines issues relating to similarity neighborhoods of words in children's lexicons. Young children's receptive vocabularies were analyzed for three-phoneme, four-phoneme and five-phoneme words. The pattern of the original results from Charles-Luce & Luce (1990) was replicated. (18 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Patterns, Language Research
